Question / Help Cannot Record Minecraft in Full Screen

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Cloister

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I don't know why, but I cannot record Minecraft in full screen using game capture. I can record in windowed mode, but not in full screen. I don't know if this information is useful, but when I go back into windowed mode, the game capture is still black until I refresh it.
Here's what I've tried that didn't work:
- Ran as Admin
- Opening Minecraft first
- Changing video settings in Minecraft
- Going between different OBS Studio versions

I honestly don't have a clue about what to do. I've searched on the internet for a couple days. I used to be able to record Minecraft a month ago, but now I can't. Please help.

Log File: https://obsproject.com/logs/fF8NsbmQfnB5jhpA
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

Active Member
It looks like after you set up the capture, Minecraft is destroying the window you're capturing and making a new one:

12:23:00.297: [game-capture: 'Game Capture 2'] capture window no longer exists, terminating capture
12:23:00.298: [game-capture: 'Game Capture 2'] capture stopped

If you set game capture to "any fullscreen app" does that work? Basically it looks like when you switch between Windowed and Fullscreen in Minecraft, Minecraft is making a new window, so the specific window you told game capture to capture is no longer there.
 
Stream Advisor

Stream Advisor

Member
Your game should be in full screen mode.
Your obs source capture should be > Game Capture.
And you should use the > Capture Specific Window Mode.
Click on Minecraft and your done.

If the problem stil persist then try a different game with these same settings.
If the other game records in full screen mode then the problem is minecraft.
If not then its obs.
 
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Cloister

New Member
Narcogen said:
It looks like after you set up the capture, Minecraft is destroying the window you're capturing and making a new one:

12:23:00.297: [game-capture: 'Game Capture 2'] capture window no longer exists, terminating capture
12:23:00.298: [game-capture: 'Game Capture 2'] capture stopped

If you set game capture to "any fullscreen app" does that work? Basically it looks like when you switch between Windowed and Fullscreen in Minecraft, Minecraft is making a new window, so the specific window you told game capture to capture is no longer there.
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Stream Advisor said:
Your game should be in full screen mode.
Your obs source capture should be > Game Capture.
And you should use the > Capture Specific Window Mode.
Click on Minecraft and your done.

If the problem stil persist then try a different game with these same settings.
If the other game records in full screen mode then the problem is minecraft.
If not then its obs.
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Thank you for the help. I fixed it now <3
 
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shixlds

New Member
DUDE I FIGURED IT OUT! So basically, have your Minecraft tab NOT fullscreen, just a regular tabbed game. Add your Game Capture to your Sources and have it set to record a specific window (your Minecraft tab). NOW go into the game> settings > video, and there should be an option for "Full Screen" and you just flick it on and BAM you're now streaming full screen. If you don't want people seeing you have to do this little 5-10 second process, you can go to OBS and go to settings> hotkeys, then the first 2 rows should say Start Streaming and Stop Streaming. You can enter your own little shortcut for those specific commands! (i.e. how you can do ctrl+alt+delete to go to the power options on your computer.) I recommend using ctrl+7 to start recording and ctrl+9 to stop recording. that way you can get your screen situated, and then use those commands to start your stream! I just figured this out after trying to get everything to work for the past few hours. Good luck recording/streaming! if I was any help lmk, I'm shixlds on twitch:)
 
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shixlds

New Member
seth0067 said:
Would love to see the answer to this... having the same problem. Thanks in advance...
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DUDE I FIGURED IT OUT! So basically, have your Minecraft tab NOT fullscreen, just a regular tabbed game. Add your Game Capture to your Sources and have it set to record a specific window (your Minecraft tab). NOW go into the game> settings > video, and there should be an option for "Full Screen" and you just flick it on and BAM you're now streaming full screen. If you don't want people seeing you have to do this little 5-10 second process, you can go to OBS and go to settings> hotkeys, then the first 2 rows should say Start Streaming and Stop Streaming. You can enter your own little shortcut for those specific commands! (i.e. how you can do ctrl+alt+delete to go to the power options on your computer.) I recommend using ctrl+7 to start recording and ctrl+9 to stop recording. that way you can get your screen situated, and then use those commands to start your stream! I just figured this out after trying to get everything to work for the past few hours. Good luck recording/streaming! if I was any help lmk, I'm shixlds on twitch:)
Stream Advisor said:
Good to hear that the problem is now fixed.
Can you tell us what you did to fix this problem?
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AwesomeMunchkin7

New Member
shixlds said:
DUDE I FIGURED IT OUT! So basically, have your Minecraft tab NOT fullscreen, just a regular tabbed game. Add your Game Capture to your Sources and have it set to record a specific window (your Minecraft tab). NOW go into the game> settings > video, and there should be an option for "Full Screen" and you just flick it on and BAM you're now streaming full screen. If you don't want people seeing you have to do this little 5-10 second process, you can go to OBS and go to settings> hotkeys, then the first 2 rows should say Start Streaming and Stop Streaming. You can enter your own little shortcut for those specific commands! (i.e. how you can do ctrl+alt+delete to go to the power options on your computer.) I recommend using ctrl+7 to start recording and ctrl+9 to stop recording. that way you can get your screen situated, and then use those commands to start your stream! I just figured this out after trying to get everything to work for the past few hours. Good luck recording/streaming! if I was any help lmk, I'm shixlds on twitch:)
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Thank you so much. I had the same problem and I appreciate you sharing your solution.
 
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